![]() ![]() At age thirty-five she would become the highest goal scorer-male or female-in the history of soccer, capturing the nation’s heart with her team’s 2015 World Cup Championship. At age seven she was put on the boys’ soccer team. ” -Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Originals and Give and Take Abby Wambach has always pushed the limits of what is possible. Forward puts achievement in context with painful and beautiful candor." -NPR "Forward is the powerful story of an athlete who has inspired girls all over the world to believe in themselves." -Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, New York Times Bestselling author of Lean In “This is the best memoir I’ve read by an athlete since Andre Agassi’s Open. ![]() NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Lucid and wrenching. ![]()
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The indignity of it burned-and in a way that no lotion could ever fix. ![]() ![]() On a trip home to an affluent Washington, D.C., suburb to meet her divorcing parents, Conor picked a fight, furious that Steiner grew up in such a “perfect” place while he was beaten by his stepfather in working-class Boston. When she met handsome, charming Conor, a 31-year-old investment banker, she fell hard. ![]() With a degree from Harvard, a job at Seventeen and an apartment in Manhattan, 22-year-old Steiner was ready to start her life anew after overcoming her substance-abuse problems from her teen years. Washington Post columnist Steiner (editor: Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families, 2006) shares the painful story of her abusive marriage. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This study, which is linked to a study on the concept of ‘culture,’ was based on an interdisciplinary approach relying on the perspectives and notions of translation studies and on methodology developed in conceptual history. The research covers first-hand analysis of key texts by Yusuf Akçura and Ziya Gökalp whereby the use of the concept of ‘nation’ by other key figures are discussed on the basis of secondary sources. The article provides research results gained from the analysis of dictionaries as well as of texts written by important figures of Turkish nationalism during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. ![]() The aim of this article is to present preliminary research results on the importation process of the concept of nation into the Ottoman/Turkish culture as the target culture. Hereby, translation, both in its narrow and broader senses, plays an important role. During importation processes of concepts, the target context and the agents involved in these processes are central and shape the imported ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roadside Picnic ( Пикник на обочине) focuses on the Zones of Alienation, where debris and items left behind by visiting extraterrestrials are concentrated. ![]() A roadside picnic, on some road in the cosmos.Ī novel by the Strugatsky brothers, written in 1971 and published in 1972. ![]() And of course, the usual mess - apple cores, candy wrappers, charred remains of the campfire cans, bottles, somebody's handkerchief, somebody's penknife, torn newspapers, comics, faded flowers picked in another meadow. Rags, burnt out bulbs, and a monkey wrench left behind. Old spark plugs and old filters strewn around. And what do they see? Gas and oil spilled on the grass. The animals, birds and insects that watched in horror through the long night creep out from their hiding places. They light fires, pitch tents, turn on the music. A car drives off the country road into the meadow, a group of young people get out of the car carrying bottles, baskets of food, transistor radios, and cameras. Picture a forest, a country road, a meadow. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The problem is, Voya has never been in love, so for her to succeed, she'll first have to find the perfect guy-and fast. Voya is determined to save her family's magic no matter the cost. And this time, failure means every Thomas witch will be stripped of their magic. ![]() When Voya's ancestor gives her an unprecedented second chance to complete her Calling, she agrees-and then is horrified when her task is to kill her first love. The problem is, she's never been in love-she'll have to find the perfect guy before she can kill him.Īfter years of waiting for her Calling-a trial every witch must pass to come into their powers-the one thing Voya Thomas didn't expect was to fail. "High stakes, big heart, and lots of Black Girl Magic.unputdownable." -Aiden Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery BoysĪ rich, dark urban fantasy debut following a teen witch who is given a horrifying task: sacrificing her first love to save her family's magic. ![]() ![]() ![]() You'll never be wondering what to read next and a huge sense of accomplishment awaits. If you love to binge-watch TV shows then why not binge-read through the greatest book series of all time - and even dare we say it - complete the ones you haven't finished. ![]() To help you along the way, try some of our recommended short stories or have audiobooks at the ready for when you are out and about. ![]() Whether its one book a month or one a week, having a number in mind to reach before New Year's Eve certainly gives you some incentive to keep picking up a book instead of the TV remote. One of the most popular challenges for bibliophiles is to read a set amount of books each year. Or perhaps reading challenges are a new concept to you altogether, but you'd like to expand your reading.Įither way we have some interesting, fun and creative suggestions to help you set your reading goals for the year and feel a sense of pride when you've completed it. You may have been tracking how many books you have read on sites such as Goodreads for some time, using social media to share the amount of books you've devoured in 365 days. ![]() ![]() Meanwhile, a world war and a pandemic rage beyond the hospital walls, and hard feelings linger from the doomed Easter Rising two years earlier. The Pull of the Stars, which takes its title from the Italian origin of the word influenza, unfolds over the course of All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day-with a chatty cast of priests, nuns and philosophizing orderlies running about-adding to the sanctified air Donoghue establishes. ![]() Also like Nick, Julia is drawn to an alluring, mysterious figure who forces her to rethink how human nature-how God, how life-actually works. It is not unlike the birthday revelation Fitzgerald’s own narrator Nick Carraway has, as youth yields to a more perilous, even tragic age. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the past month in China, hospitals, pharmacies, and funeral homes have been overwhelmed, but the scale of the misery is anyone’s guess. The country that was home to the first coronavirus outbreak may now experience its worst. Last month, China, after suppressing the virus for three years through its often draconian “zero COVID” policy-recording just five thousand COVID deaths in a population of 1.4 billion-abruptly abandoned that approach and is now consumed by an enormous viral surge. Press play again and India is engulfed in a viral inferno that threatens not only its own citizens but, because it stopped exporting vaccines for half a year, millions of lives around the world. Let it roll a few more months and European countries botch their reopening, unleashing a wave of deaths. Cut the graph at the summer of 2020 and the United States is a catastrophic outlier, a beacon of pandemic mismanagement. ![]() ![]() Throughout the pandemic, we have truncated not the y-axis but the x-axis: stopping time to pass judgment on a nation’s performance instead of waiting to consider the broad sweep of the COVID-19 years. But if you hack off empty space at the bottom and zoom in on the action, the line takes off like a rocket. A trend line starts in a chart’s midsection and moseys up and to the right-a gradual rise over time. In “How to Lie with Statistics,” a best-selling book from 1954, the journalist (and tobacco apologist) Darrell Huff details common techniques for manipulating people’s understanding of reality, among them truncating the y-axis of a graph. ![]() |